:What do demographics tell us about library users in the next five years? What are the implications for libraries?

:What do demographics tell us about library users in the next five years? What are the implications for libraries?

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Hey all--

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I had an idea I thought I would throw out there before our conference call.

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I know we purposely chose not to delve deeply into the national demographic trends and how they will be affecting libraries, but I think it is essential that we talk about that in our introduction. I think we will need to do some research about what the trends are and how they will impact libraries in general before we dive right into to resources. I was thinking that might go well with either Yan's lit review (maybe instead of reviewing literature on resources, he could review literature on demographic change and libraries) or with Sarah's discussion of "why is this important." (I'm not trying to give work to other people, it just seemed to fit nicely with one of those categories... I could do this if no one else wants to.)

2007 Projects List

Work with newly formed RUSA task force on membership recruitment to identify strategies for marketing the division to new members. The Emerging Leaders groupw ould provide input and evaluations on strategies already identified, as well as new ideas for the project from the point of view of young professionals.

Emerging Leaders project team would review the 2008 National Conference Program Proposals as part of the NC Program Review Committee. The NC Program review committee will be meeting at MW to review programs, the committee chair would assign the EL team the task of reviewing program proposals to identify programs for a leadership track or programs that would appeal to generation X or millenials (specifics of the project will be determined by our member leader mentor, Jane Eickhoff)

What do demographics tell us about library users in the next five years? What are the implications for libraries?

Hey all--

I had an idea I thought I would throw out there before our conference call.

I know we purposely chose not to delve deeply into the national demographic trends and how they will be affecting libraries, but I think it is essential that we talk about that in our introduction. I think we will need to do some research about what the trends are and how they will impact libraries in general before we dive right into to resources. I was thinking that might go well with either Yan's lit review (maybe instead of reviewing literature on resources, he could review literature on demographic change and libraries) or with Sarah's discussion of "why is this important." (I'm not trying to give work to other people, it just seemed to fit nicely with one of those categories... I could do this if no one else wants to.)